SpaceX Buys the Right to Buy Cursor for $60 Billion
TL;DR SpaceX has signed an option to acquire Cursor (made by Anysphere) for $60 billion, or pay $10 billion for the joint work if it walks away Cursor’s valuation has risen 24x in fifteen months - from $2.5 billion in January 2025 to a $60 billion option price in April 2026 The deal sits under SpaceX rather than xAI directly, because SpaceX holds the balance sheet after the SpaceX - xAI merger valued at $1.25 trillion For xAI, buying Cursor is a faster route to developer relevance than out-marketing OpenAI’s Codex or Anthropic’s Claude Code If the acquisition closes, three of the main AI coding interfaces will sit inside three frontier labs - raising questions about model neutrality and pricing pressure on independent tools It’s rare to see an option contract make the front page, but that is what landed on 21 April 2026. SpaceX disclosed that it has signed a deal with Cursor - the AI coding tool made by Anysphere - giving it the right to buy the startup outright for $60 billion later this year, or to walk away with a $10 billion payment for the joint work the two teams are doing in the meantime. ...